{"id":99343,"date":"2017-05-22T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=99343"},"modified":"2017-05-22T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:03:36","slug":"major-league-ball-players-come-mostly-from-the-province-of-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/05\/22\/major-league-ball-players-come-mostly-from-the-province-of-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League ball players come mostly from the province of Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-96113\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MLB-300x242.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/>In its initial years, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds province made a name for itself as the cradle of Dominican ball players \u2013 boasting such famous players as Rico Carty, George Bell, Pedro Guerrero and Sammy Sosa, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, the many baseball academies in the province of Santo Domingo are attracting a lot of young talent from around metro area. So it might come as a surprise that, as reported in Diario Libre, the province of Santo Domingo leads the way in the number of MLB players from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 provinces where professional baseball players were born are:\u00a0Santo Domingo, 186; San Pedro de Macoris, 104; San Crist\u00f3bal: 68; Santiago, 50; Peravia (Ban\u00ed) 35; La Romana 26; Montecristi 23; Puerto Plata, 17; Duarte (San Francisco de Macor\u00eds) 16; and Azua 15.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/de-696-peloteros-en-grandes-ligas-santo-domingo-aporta-mayor-cifra-BX7132773\" target=\"_blank\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22 May 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its initial years, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds province made a name for itself as the cradle of Dominican ball players \u2013 boasting such famous players as Rico Carty, George Bell, Pedro Guerrero and Sammy Sosa, among others. Today, however, the many baseball academies in the province of Santo Domingo are attracting a lot of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/05\/22\/major-league-ball-players-come-mostly-from-the-province-of-santo-domingo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}